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{{Short description|Persian Islamic hadith scholar (824–887)}}
{{Infobox religious biography
| religion = [[Islam]]
| era = [[Islamic golden age]]
| name = Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Yazīd Ibn Mājah al-Rabʿī al-Qazwīnī
| image =
| title = Ibn Mājah
| birth_date = {{circa}} 824 CE
| birth_place = [[Qazvin]], Persia, [[Abbasid Caliphate]]<br />{{small|(present-day [[Iran]])}}
| death_date = {{circa}} 887 or 889 CE
| death_place = Qazvin, Persia, Abbasid Caliphate
| ethnicity = [[Persian people|Persian]]<ref name=HistDict2009>{{Cite book |title=Historical Dictionary of Islam: Second Edition|last=W. Adamec |first=Ludwig |publisher=Scarecrow Press |year=2009 |isbn=978-0-8108-6161-9 | location= Estover Road, Plymouth PL67PY, United Kingdom |page=139}}</ref>
| denomination = [[Sunni]]
| creed = [[Athari]]<ref name=HistDict2009/>
| notable_works = [[Sunan Ibn Majah|''Sunan Ibn Mājah'']], ''Kitāb at-Tafsīr'' and ''Kitāb at-Tārīkh''
| caption = [[Islamic calligraphy]] of his name
| main interests = [[Hadith]], [[Fiqh]]
}}

'''Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Yazīd Ibn Mājah al-Rabʿī al-Qazwīnī'''<ref>{{Cite web|title=About - Sunan Ibn Majah - Sunnah.com - Sayings and Teachings of Prophet Muhammad (صلى الله عليه و سلم)|url=https://sunnah.com/ibnmajah/about|access-date=2020-12-17|website=sunnah.com|archive-date=2021-04-14|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210414192952/https://sunnah.com/ibnmajah/about|url-status=live}}</ref> ({{lang-ar|ابو عبد الله محمد بن يزيد بن ماجه الربعي القزويني}}; (b. 209/824, d. 273/887) commonly known as '''Ibn Mājah''', was a [[Middle Ages|medieval]] scholar of [[hadith]] of [[Persian people|Persian]]<ref>{{cite book|editor-last1=Frye|editor-first1=R.N.|title=The Cambridge history of Iran.|date=1975|publisher=Cambridge U.P.|location=London|isbn=978-0-521-20093-6|page=471|edition=Repr.}}</ref> origin. He compiled the last of [[Sunni Islam]]'s [[Six major Hadith collections|six canonical hadith collections]], ''[[Sunan ibn Majah|Sunan Ibn Mājah]]''.<ref name="Tadhkirah">{{cite book|last=al-Dhahabi|first=Muhammad ibn Ahmad|title=Tadhkirat al-Huffaz|editor=al-Mu`allimi|publisher=Da`irat al-Ma`arif al-`Uthmaniyyah|location=Hyderabad|year=1957|volume=2|pages=636|language=Arabic}}</ref><ref name="Ludwig 2009">[[Ludwig W. Adamec]] (2009), ''Historical Dictionary of Islam'', p.139. Scarecrow Press. {{ISBN|0810861615}}.</ref>

==<span lang="ur" dir="rtl">Biography</span>==
[[File:IranQazvin.svg|thumb|150px|A map of present-day [[Iran]] showing the location of [[Qazvin|Qazwin]], the place of birth and death of Ibn Mājah]]
Ibn Mājah was born in [[Qazvin|Qazwin]], the modern-day [[Iran]]ian province of Qazvin, in 824 CE/209 AH<ref name="Tadhkirah" /> to a family who were members (''[[mawla]]'') of the Rabīʻah tribe.<ref name="Risalah" /> ''Mājah'' was the nickname of his father, and not that of his grandfather nor was it his mother's name, contrary to those claiming this. The ''hāʼ'' at the end is un-voweled whether in stopping upon its pronunciation or continuing because it a non-Arabic name.<ref name="Risalah"/>

He left his hometown to travel the [[Muslim world|Islamic world]] visiting [[Iraq]], [[Mecca|Makkah]], the [[Levant]] and [[Egypt]]. He studied under [[Ibn Abi Shaybah]] (through whom came over a quarter of ''al-Sunan''), Muḥammad ibn ʻAbdillāh ibn Numayr, Jubārah ibn al-Mughallis, Ibrāhīm ibn al-Mundhir al-Ḥizāmī, ʻAbdullāh ibn Muʻāwiyah, Hishām ibn ʻAmmār, Muḥammad ibn Rumḥ, Dāwūd ibn Rashīd and others from their era. Abū Yaʻlā al-Khalīlī praised Ibn Mājah as "reliable (''thiqah''), prominent, agreed upon, a religious authority, possessing knowledge and the capability to memorize."<ref name="Tadhkirah" />

According to [[al-Dhahabi|al-Dhahabī]], Ibn Mājah died on approximately February 19, 887 CE/with eight days remaining of the month of [[Ramadan]], 273 AH,<ref name="Tadhkirah" /> or, according to al-Kattānī, in either 887/273 or 889/275.<ref name="Risalah" /> He died in [[Qazvin|Qazwin]].<ref name="Risalah">{{cite book|last=al-Kattani|first=Muhammah ibn Ja`far|title=al-Risalah al-Mustatrafah|editor=Muhammad ibn Muhammad al-Kattani|publisher=Dar al-Bashair al-Islamiyyah|location=Beirut|year=2007|edition=seventh|pages=12|language=Arabic}}</ref>

What he compiled/did
Al-Dhahabī mentioned the following of Ibn Mājah's works:<ref name="Tadhkirah"/>
* ''[[Sunan ibn Majah|Sunan Ibn Mājah]]'': one of the [[Six major Hadith collections|six canonical collections]] of [[hadith]]
* ''Kitāb al-Tafsīr'': a book of [[Tafsir|Qur'an exegesis]]
* ''Kitāb al-Tārīkh'': a book of history or, more likely, a listing of hadith transmitters

===The ''Sunan''===
{{main|Sunan ibn Majah}}
The ''Sunan'' consists of 1,500 chapters and about 4,000 [[hadith]].<ref name="Tadhkirah" /> Upon completing it, he read it to [[Abu Zur’a al-Razi]], a hadith authority of his time, who commented, "I think that were people to get their hands on this, the other collections, or most of them, would be rendered obsolete."<ref name="Tadhkirah" />

==References==
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==Further reading==
* Suhaib Hasan Abdul Ghaffar, ''Criticism of Hadith among Muslims with reference to Sunan Ibn Maja'', Presidency of Islamic Research, IFTA and Propagation: Riyadh 1984. {{ISBN|0-907461-56-5}}.
* Brown, Jonathan A. C. ‘The canonization of Ibn Mâjah: authenticity vs. utility in the formation of the Sunni ḥadîth canon’. Pages 169–81 in ''Écriture de l’histoire et processus de canonisation dans les premiers siècles de l’islam''. Directed by Antoine Borrut. Revue des mondes musulmans et de la Méditerranée 129. Aix-en-Provence: Presses Universitaires de Provence, 2011.
* Robson, James. 'The Transmission of Ibn Majah's "Sunan"', ''Journal of Semitic studies'' 3 (1958): 129–41.

==External links==
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{{wikisourcelang|ar|مؤلف:ابن ماجه|Ibn Majah}}
* [http://www.muslimscholars.info/manage.php?submit=scholar&ID=30004 Biodata at MuslimScholars.info]
* [https://sunnah.com/ibnmajah/about Biography at Sunnah.com]
* [http://ahadith.co.uk/ibnmajah.php Sunan Ibn Majah] – Searchable Sunan Ibn Majah Online
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20080306081707/http://www.theclearpath.com/viewtopic.php?t=71 Biography of Imam Ibn Maajah at theclearpath.com]
*Abu `Abdallah Muhammad ibn Yazid Ibn Maja al-Rab`i al-Qazwini: ''[https://archive.org/details/SunanIbn-e-Majah-3Volumes-TranslationByShaykhMuhammadQasimAmeen Sunan Ibn -e- Majah – 3 Volumes – Translation By Shaykh Muhammad Qasim Ameen]''
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20160331090635/http://www.at-tawhid.net/article-abu-abdi-llah-ibn-majah-al-qazwini-m-273-103181808.html Biography of Imam Ibn Mâjah by ''at-tawhid.net''] {{in lang|fr}}

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Ajay Kumar at 19:38, 28 September 2023